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achillesforever6 posted:I was hoping for a video on PJ because unlike Spider-man it hasn't been done to death; though my sister both being a giant fan of PJ and musicals actually went up to see it off Broadway and had the CD to play; it's decent. I'm also a big PJ fan and in a more just world Rick Riordan would be richer and seen as a much better JK Rowling both in person and content. IIRC Amazon is rebooting Percy Jackson as a TV series.
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Dec 31, 2020 18:31
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DoctorWhat posted:Overwatch is a first-person MOBA, not a competitive shioter. The term MOBA bugs me because it could conceivably describe any online multiplayer game with violence, but means an extremely specific thing based on a Warcraft 3 custom map. Also, the “arena” part of MOBA conjures the image, for me, of a relatively small but open space, not a whole-rear end city dotted with fortresses, mercenary camps, and shops. It makes things less clear.  Just call them DOTAlikes. We already use Roguelike, Soulsbourne, and Doom clone. Sorry, what were we talking about?
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Dec 31, 2020 18:32
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Isn't the "plot" of Overwatch just haphazardly repurposed leftovers from a cancelled MMO project? No wonder it's so disjointed
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Dec 31, 2020 18:38
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ninjewtsu posted:The characters in overwatch were frequently just really obnoxious and also paper thin. Those voice lines got super grating in a way that the tf2 cast never did Also they just sort of shrug their shoulders as to why you have villains and heroes working together to, I don't know, push a limo down Hollywood or whatever. Wonder if they'll still keep Tracer's extremely obnoxious "Co' blimey, guv'nor u wot mate cheers!" 'Cockney' accent that would make even Dick Van Dyke embarrassed. Probably.
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Dec 31, 2020 18:54
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Are they still making Overwatch 2 as a single player game, or did that get canceled like 99.9% of Blizzard projects?
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Dec 31, 2020 18:58
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FuturePastNow posted:Are they still making Overwatch 2 as a single player game, or did that get canceled like 99.9% of Blizzard projects? Since they originally said that the multiplayer component would be the same across 1 and 2, at this point I'm just assuming that Overwatch 2 will be a way to get PS5 and XSX versions out there in a way that people will pay full price for.
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Dec 31, 2020 19:02
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The only year-end review that matters: Todd and Aaron's Game Awards 2020
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Dec 31, 2020 19:23
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FuturePastNow posted:Are they still making Overwatch 2 as a single player game, or did that get canceled like 99.9% of Blizzard projects? They obviously rushed out the announcement to distract from the Hong Kong stuff. I suspect it is years away.
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Dec 31, 2020 19:37
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flatluigi posted:three notes: Confirmed now pretty much, by people who knew him. I wouldn't read the note he put up on said video. It's around (as is par for the course YouTube takes down all content that falls under suicide notes immediately), but it's not pleasant. Um...yeah, there's not much good to say here, just a terrible situation all around. I feel sorry for his family and for people who knew him.
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Dec 31, 2020 19:40
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That's a shame about Apollo Legend. I liked his stuff.
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Dec 31, 2020 20:07
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I was so bad at Spy I couldn't even shoot people with the guns. I swear the aim reticule and where the bullet would actually go were on totally different planes. Also, I know very little about game design aside from 'people don't look up' and 'use lit up paths to guide people to go down them' but even I was cringing looking at Overwatch because it was 6v6 every mode. With so little margin for error, everyone's gotta be on the ball to keep the game possible to win.
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Dec 31, 2020 20:25
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Overwatch was a very bad game that I will always hold fondness for due to the fact that I once played a match where only my HUD and the level architecture loaded in so I was playing completely blind and somehow managed to play the best round I ever played of any game ever, single handedly reversing the team's fortune (I joined a friend mid-game). However it is a game that seemed to desperately want to be any game other than itself, what with its intricate backstory, lore, seeming plot progression and complex character motivations... for a meaningless shooter. At least Apex Legends has its seasons which allow for an actual progression of light backstory. Blizzard haven't made anything particularly good since Warcraft 3, and it saddens me to see a company that made Diablo 2 turn into such absolute poo poo.
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Dec 31, 2020 20:32
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Hattie Masters posted:Overwatch was a very bad game that I will always hold fondness for due to the fact that I once played a match where only my HUD and the level architecture loaded in so I was playing completely blind and somehow managed to play the best round I ever played of any game ever, single handedly reversing the team's fortune (I joined a friend mid-game). Good news, the company that made Diablo 2 was Blizzard North, which was shut down by Vivendi in 2005!
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Dec 31, 2020 20:39
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Alaois posted:Good news, the company that made Diablo 2 was Blizzard North, which was shut down by Vivendi in 2005! Looking at screenshots of their Diablo 3 always makes me a little sad. I did like a bunch of people who worked on 3 whining on Facebook about one of the Blizzard North guys criticizing 3.
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Dec 31, 2020 20:48
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My crowning moment in OW was doing the thing where you set D.Va's mech to blow up and shoot it straight into the sky so it comes down in group of people and I took out most of the opposing team. After that the bloom was off the rose.
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Dec 31, 2020 21:11
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I'm annoyed at Diablo for starting up the loot bonanza stuff in games where you find a hundred different swords with tiny stat differences and have to juggle piles of garbage in your inventory forever
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Dec 31, 2020 21:15
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Casey Finnigan posted:I'm annoyed at Diablo for starting up the loot bonanza stuff in games where you find a hundred different swords with tiny stat differences and have to juggle piles of garbage in your inventory forever Feels like that poo poo's everywhere these days  . Even in Tales of Zestiria, a jrpg, where it feels even more out of place than it normally does.
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Dec 31, 2020 21:40
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Bakeneko posted:Feels like that poo poo's everywhere these days Not to worry, that game was poo poo for a million other reasons too.
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Dec 31, 2020 22:06
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The thing that killed TF2 for me was the decline of the dedicated server. I used to play on two really good, friendly servers with a cast of regulars that were both really good at the game and really fun to play with. The admins were also online very often and would kick assholes from the server. It was a great experience that Valve sabotaged and I haven't played the game since…
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Dec 31, 2020 22:45
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Not to worry, that game was poo poo for a million other reasons too. Berseria was great though.
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Dec 31, 2020 22:58
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As messy as the story was, Vesperia had the best art style IMO.
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Dec 31, 2020 23:01
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MonsieurChoc posted:Berseria was great though. There's a lot going on in Berseria that seems almost like a callback (call forward?) to Zestiria. I really think they were going to be much more connected before someone decided that Berseria would be a much stronger game if they just took an axe to all the Zestiria set up.
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Dec 31, 2020 23:02
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Jimbot posted:I wholly agree with the personality stuff with Overwatch. It's also terrible because they're just surface-level archetypes. Blizzard has no backbone so the characters will never be anything but. You'd never know Tracer and Soldier 76 were gay because they hide the representation so much to allow for territories not progressive on those issues to censor it. Congrats, Blizzard. You have one thing a lot of people like - the cast of characters - but are too chickenshit to make them loud and proud. Capitalists gonna capitalist, though, so I guess that's nothing new really. isnt apex in the same universe but like a different part of the galaxy or something. idk wouldnt mind trying apex. also i burned out of overwatch after a while because the story takes itself way to seriously but never goes anywhere. meanwhile tf2 is funny and weird and has stories that do stuff sorta.
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Dec 31, 2020 23:03
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I loved Berseria but being a prequel to Zestiria kinda took the wind out of the game's sails in a way. It would've been a way better game if they had just made a clean break and completely severed the ties between the two. At least the Zestiria anime was cool.
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Dec 31, 2020 23:03
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Antigravitas posted:The thing that killed TF2 for me was the decline of the dedicated server. I used to play on two really good, friendly servers with a cast of regulars that were both really good at the game and really fun to play with. The admins were also online very often and would kick assholes from the server. It was a great experience that Valve sabotaged and I haven't played the game since… I used to play on the FUG servers a lot. I think they're still around but nowhere near the crowd of regulars I used to drop with.
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Dec 31, 2020 23:04
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good lord Ripley is adorable https://twitch.tv/videos/852447043?t=18904s cool baby! 
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Jan 1, 2021 00:11
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Schwarzwald posted:There's a lot going on in Berseria that seems almost like a callback (call forward?) to Zestiria. Berseria is basically a game made to poo poo on Zesteria because Zesterias plot is weirdly hosed up and nihilistic. Berseria basically exists to say eh all that poo poo is bullshit
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Jan 1, 2021 00:40
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Casey Finnigan posted:I'm annoyed at Diablo for starting up the loot bonanza stuff in games where you find a hundred different swords with tiny stat differences and have to juggle piles of garbage in your inventory forever
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Jan 1, 2021 00:44
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VoidBurger posted:Yeah, I started a new channel for any video essay things I do because I figured someone who found me via the video essay would be dismayed to see that my hundreds of other videos are Let's Plays and streams and not much video essay stuff. Less rude to say "Hey, I also have a gaming channel with thousands of hours of stuff that isn't this." and just link it than make people wade through tons of vids in the vague hope that one of them is similar to the content they originally came for. Hey, VB.
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Jan 1, 2021 02:52
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Ghostlight posted:break in case the vote doesn't go your way: This was really good. Thanks.
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Jan 1, 2021 02:59
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BigRed0427 posted:Is it fair to say that Overwatch was made with pro level play in mind first? As a guy that actually covered overwatch esports for his job for a few years, LMAO NO
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Jan 1, 2021 03:05
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Noah Gervais has one last video for the very end of 2020 discussing the strange beast that is the Watch Dogs franchise, a review we probably never would have got if not for the year-long lockdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaI1BgNTy8k
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Jan 1, 2021 03:41
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Marshal Radisic posted:Noah Gervais has one last video for the very end of 2020 discussing the strange beast that is the Watch Dogs franchise, a review we probably never would have got if not for the year-long lockdown. nice. can't wait to watch. watchdogs is the IP of ubi with no real identity outside vague cyberpunk lite feel and mechanics. far cry is all about open world FPS with a hosed up weird villain and beautiful scenery, AC is scifi historical fiction with now rpg mechanics. clancy poo poo is clancy poo poo, etc. 1 could be a good game if they hadn't pulled back on making the character an "unlikable rear end in a top hat" instead of trying to do both ways which just made him an unlikable rear end in a top hat. 2 is fun and has cool ideas and i like the characters but its tone is all over the place but with better mechanics. legion is basically a cool tech demo in london with weirdly good politics for an AAA game.
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Jan 1, 2021 05:14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3aK-EK5V2k&t=152s Sideways loses his mind for an hour trying to understand what the hell Tom Hooper was thinking with his adaptation of Cats.
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Jan 1, 2021 05:25
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Groovelord Neato posted:People getting way into the lore of online only multiplayer shooters (or say something like League) is so odd to me. I've played a ton of Apex Legends and I guess it has a deep storyline about all the characters and I know nothing about it outside of flavor lines the character say to each other. It at least makes some sense as to why the Fortnite model (which I think Apex has tried to copy) works - Epic puts the effort (aka crunch and $$$$$) into tying everything together and keeping a dripfeed of new clues, easter eggs, reveals, whatever going the whole season. And a lot of that material directly feeds into the gameplay by changing the map, adding/removing weapons, new mechanics, etc. Plus you get an actual in-game event to cap off every season. In Fortnite, you got to pilot a Tony Stark-enhanced battlebus to do a Death Star trench run on Galactus. In Overwatch, you read a comic out of game and then maybe Tracer got a voice line that indirectly references it. RareAcumen posted:I was so bad at Spy I couldn't even shoot people with the guns. I swear the aim reticule and where the bullet would actually go were on totally different planes. There was definitely something out of whack between the reticle, the bullet tracers, and the actual accuracy of the revolvers. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it was some kind of legacy jank from the earliest days of TF2, either back when Spy didn't even have a revolver or back when they rendered weapon stuff slightly differently.
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Jan 1, 2021 05:36
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spy revolver was hitscan meaning the tracers didnt mean anything and it just instantly either recorded a hit or miss, the first shot was perfectly accurate but the followups were randomly aimed until you waited a while so theres some annoying inherent inconsistency if you didnt know any of this 
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Jan 1, 2021 05:42
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i want to watch cats again.
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Jan 1, 2021 05:42
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3aK-EK5V2k&t=152s He goes absolutely loving insane in the last ten minutes there, this rules
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Jan 1, 2021 06:13
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Ghostlight posted:i want to watch cats again. I watched it three times in one week this month. It’s such a bewildering movie.
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Jan 1, 2021 06:15
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Arist posted:He goes absolutely loving insane in the last ten minutes there, this rules I JUST SAVE YOU A COUPLE MILLION DOLLARS IN OVERHEAD, TOM. Sideways losing it is the best thing I've seen this year (so far) Also that video he referenced for the rehearsal portion of the video led me to this amazing thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS64pb0XnbI Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jan 1, 2021 |
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Jan 1, 2021 06:25
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